AMERICAN COMMISSION CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 10388.

11 F.Supp. 965 (1935)

AMERICAN COMMISSION CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

District Court, D. Colorado.

August 29, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pershing, Nye, Bosworth & Dick, Robert G. Bosworth, and Arthur C. Johnson, all of Denver, Colo., and John S. Boyd, of Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

C. E. Miles, Dept. of Agriculture, of Washington, D. C., Thomas J. Morrissey, U. S. Atty., of Denver, Colo., G. N. Daggar, Dept. of Agriculture, of Washington, D. C., Wendell Berge, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Harold M. Stephens, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Seth Thomas, Solicitor, Dept. of Agriculture, of Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Before PHILLIPS and McDERMOTT, Circuit Judges, and SYMES, District Judge.


SYMES, District Judge.

The seventeen petitioners and plaintiffs (individuals, partnerships, corporations) are market agencies buying and selling livestock on commission at the Denver Union Stock Yards, Denver, Colo., and registered and doing business under the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act of August 15, 1921 (section 303 [7 USCA § 203]). They filed this bill in equity against the United States and the Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to section...

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